Bubbles · System of a Down

83 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 1:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-13, 26-29 and 44-51, and 1 more place -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BUBBLES · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 21, 31 and 39.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 12 sections: 58 keep time, 5 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-69.

PART B
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBFMJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bubbles?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bubbles hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 1:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bubbles?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 21, 31 and 39.

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